by DHales | Mar 28, 2016 | art, Books, culture, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
loveitaly! With an estimated 60 percent of the world’s designated art treasures, Italy attracts some 48 million visitors every year—so many that a curator friend fears that many could be “loved to death” (amata da morire). Now a thoroughly modern initiative is...
by DHales | Nov 20, 2015 | Books, culture, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech
Le voci di Pompei Pompeii, a World Heritage Site (patrimonio mondiale dell'umanità), was a thriving Roman city of about 12,000 citizens buried (sepolta) by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Excavations (scavi) began after the discovery of the lost city...
by DHales | Feb 23, 2013 | art, culture, history, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei The Last Days of Pompeii The exhibit with this name at the Cleveland Museum of Art, part of the year of Italian culture (l’anno della cultura italiana), is subtitled: “Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection” (Decadenza, Apocalisse,...
